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Festival Faculty
& Artists


2023

 

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director 

Dang Thai Son

Professor, New England Conservatory & Oberlin School of Music

Ursula Oppens

Professor, Mannes College of the New School; Grammy Nominee

Alon Goldstein

Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Amy Gustafson

Director, Gijón International Piano Festival

Douglas Humpherys

Professor, Eastman School of Music

Michael Lewin

Piano Chair, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Jerome Lowenthal

Professor, The Juilliard School

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

Pierre van der Westhuizen

Director, Gilmore Piano Festival

Sophia Shuya Liu (guest artist)

Gold Medalist, 2022 Ettlingen International Piano Competition, Germany


2022

 

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director 

 Kathryn Brown

Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music

 Bruce Brubaker

Piano Chair, New England Conservatory

Ingrid Clarfield

Piano Chair, Westminster Choir College

Debra Lew Harder

Concert Pianist, Radio Host for the Met Opera

Douglas Humpherys

Professor, Eastman School of Music

Kate Liu

Bronze Medalist, 17th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw

Marina Lomazov

Professor, Eastman School of Music

Louis Scaglione

Music Director, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra

Vera Wilson

Founder, Astral Artists


2021

 

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

 Sergei Babayan 

Concert Pianist, Deutsche Grammophon Artist

 Kathryn Brown

Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music

Christopher Elton

Emeritus Professor, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK

Gary Graffman

Former President, Curtis Institute of Music

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director 

Chen Jiang

Piano Chair, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Joyce Lindorff

Professor, Temple University

Alexander Korsantia 

Professor, New England Conservatory of Music

Marina Lomazov

Professor, Eastman School of Music

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden

Jury, Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition


2020

 

Kathryn Brown

Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music

William Carr

Professor of Music, Immaculata University

Gary Graffman

Former President, Curtis Institute of Music

Gila Goldstein

Director of Piano Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director 

Jerome Lowenthal

Professor, the Juilliard School

Alexandre Moutouzkine

Professor, Manhattan School of Music

Ursula Oppens

Professor, Mannes Collage of the New School; Grammy Nominee

Mac McClure

Director of Music, National University of Colombia

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden

Jury, Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition

Pierre van der Westhuizen

Director, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival

Idith Zvi 

Emeritus Director, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition


2019

 

Gary Graffman

Former President, Curtis Institute of Music

Dang Thai Son

Professor, New England Conservatory of Music & Oberlin Conservatory of Music 

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Yekwon Sunwoo

2017 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist

Lydia Artymiw

Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota

Alon Goldstein

Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City


2018

 

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

Simone Dinnerstein

Grammy Nominee, Concert Pianist

Gary Graffman

Former President, Curtis Institute of Music

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Jerome Lowenthal

Professor, the Juilliard School

Jonathan Eifert

Founder & Creative Director, Gold Sound Media

Mac McClure

Director of Keyboard Studies, National University of Bogota, Colombia

Matthew Oberstein

Vice President, Opus 3 Artists Management

Pierre van der Westhuizen

Director, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival


2017

 

Gary Graffman

Former President, Curtis Institute of Music

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Ursula Oppens

Professor, Mannes Collage of the New School; Grammy Nominee

Mira Yevtich

Co-Founder, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival


2016

 

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

Alon Goldstein

University of Missouri - Kansas City

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Douglas Humpherys

Professor, Eastman School of Music

Artistic Director, Gina Bachauer International Competition & Eastman International Piano Competition

Margarita Shevchenko

Professor, Michigan State University


2015

 

Wha Kyung Byun

Professor, New England Conservatory of Music

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Alexandre Moutouzkine

Professor, Manhattan School of Music

HaeSun Paik

Artistic Director, Busan Music Festival

Russell Sherman

Professor, New England Conservatory of Music

Idith Zvi

Emeritus Director, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition


2014

 

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Jerome Lowenthal

Professor, the Juilliard School

Xiang Zhou(?)

Concert Pianist


2013

 

Charles Abramovic

Piano Chair, Temple University

Sergei Babayan

Concert Pianist, Deutsche Grammophon Artist

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

Meng-Chieh Liu

Professor, Curtis Institute of Music